Improved wing-ed metallic cartridges



A. D. PERRY.

Cartridge.

Ptentd Mar. 5 1850 V No. 7,147.

ALONZO D. PERRY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED WING-ED METALLIC CARTRIDGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 7,147, dated March 5,1850.

To all whom it may concern.-

, Be it known that I, ALONZO I). PERRY, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in theLoaded Ball or Cartridge for Fire-Arms and that the following is a full,clear, and ex act description of the principle or character whichdistinguishes them from all other things before known, and of the mannerof making, constructing, and using the. same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making part of this specification in which--Fignre 1 is an elevation, and Fi 2 a sect-ion, oi a loaded ball on myimproved plan; and Figs. 3 and 4, like views oi" a similar hall, with myimproved mode of tiringmagazities at tached to it.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

My improvements relate to that class of car tridges or loaded balls inwhich the ball is made cylindrical, with a spherical or pointed end, andthe rear part hollow, to contain the charge of powder.

The first part oi my invention consists in slitting the rear end of thehollow part of the ball, at given distances apart, around the periphery,and in lines parallel or slightl oblique to the axis, so that, alter thecharge of powder, with a gun cotton or other equivalent cap over it, hasbeer inserted, the slittcd parts can be bent in, overlapping each other,to secure the charge, and which, when the ball is discharged from thebarrel oi a gun or other iire'arm, will be spread out by the force olthe discharge, and form spiral wings to give a retary motion to thebail, to guide it in a straight line; and the second part of myinvention consists in forming the i'orward end of the ball with anipple, to which is titted a percussion contain the charge ofpowder,which is covered with a cap of g'uircotton, c. The rear end is cut atgiven distances apart, as shown in the two sectional Figs. 5 and 6. Thecuts should be made inclined, or in lines parallel with the axis, (theformer being preferable,) and transversely in lines tangential to acircle of less diameter than the ball, so that, alter the charge hasbeen inserted, the slitted end can be forced in all around, to inclosethe charge of powder with the covering-cap and overlap each other. Theball so made and loaded, when discharged from the barrel, will leave theparts a forced out by the pressure within, and assume the formrepresented in Fig. 7, which will constilute a series of spiral leathersor wings, that will give to the ball rotary motion to direct it in itscourse and insure its moving with the head foremost. When I wish to usesuch balls for the purpose of firing magazines, 840.. I form the headpart b with a nipple to receive a percussion-cap, so that when the ballstrikes the explosion of the cap may communicate lire. When the ball ismade withl'a nipple and cap, it is important that it should, at the sametime, be made with the feathers or wings for guiding it, that it maymove head foremost, as experience has shown that when made without suchfeathers or other means of guiding,

they are quite as liable to move sidewise, as endwise. But I do not wishto limit myself to the use of the nipple andcap, with the mode, ofguiding the hall herein specified, as other modes may be substituted. t

What i: claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The method of inelosing the charge of pow dor in the hollow" part of theball by slitting its rear end and bending; in the parts so. slitted,substantially as herein described, that when the ball is discharged theparts so slitted may be l'orcod out, to become leathers or wines toguide the ball, substantially as described.

A. D. PERRY.

Witnesses:

1%. W. Lownun, A. I. BROWNE.

